Thanks to all for the replies :) I got urlview working, discovering
three things:
1-There was no .urlview in either /etc or my home directory.
Apparently Red Hat 6.1 didn't do this?
2-My .muttrc, the default which came with the package, had the \cb
binding set for the index but not the pager. Adding the pager, it got
it to run....in the pager.
3-The Red Hat sample.urlview has the following command:
to invoke for selected URL
COMMAND netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)'
I get an error message if Netscape is not open; works only with
Netscape running.
Question: How to get to launch Netscape if not open and/or same
question for lynx?
Thanks for the great support, folks! :)
John
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 07:24:59AM +0200, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> John P. Verel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 01 Mar 2000:
> > Now, next project is to be able to
> > "click" on imbeded hyperlinks. The mutt manual (4.12) refers to an
> > external urlview program. I'm unclear what the manual means in
> > referring to macro index....etc. Have you done this?
>
> The urlview programs takes any text file and looks for URLs in it.
> (Actually what it looks for can be configured, so you could make it
> do any kind of things, but the default use is to look for URLs...)
>
> The way this works is to set up urlview, and then create a macro in Mutt
> that will send the contents of the current message to the urlview
> program. Then in urlview you see all the links and can select any one
> of them.
>
> Urlview is really rather simple, and I remember having no trouble at all
> setting it up with the documentation that was provided, down to adding
> the relevant macro (ctrl-b) into my .muttrc.
>
>
> This isn't true "click on the links as I see them" type of feature.
> That's not really possible with Mutt. However it's possible with
> xterms, I think there was a program called "dingus" that enabled this.
> (I'm not sure, dingus may have been adapted into gnome-terminal, I
> remember once reading something like that... But could mis-remember
> too.)
>
>
> Regards,
> Mikko
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